Special:MobileLanguages is indexed by search engines (as pseudo-404)
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q="Arbennig%3AAboutTopic"+site%3Acy.wikipedia.org (https://archive.fo/P2fop ) returns a slate of "Page unavailable", for instance https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbennig:MobileLanguages/17 which says

This page is not available on desktop. Please click the mobile view link at the bottom of the page.

but returns a status code 200 and contains an inappropriate

<link rel="canonical" href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbennig:MobileLanguages/17"/>

In such a case, the special page should either

return 404, or
return 302 and redirect to the Wikidata item.

Additionally, the canonical URL should be something with actual content.

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	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	+4 -0	Set canonical URL on Special:MobileLanguages to actual page URL
	mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend	master	+4 -1	Do not return HTTP 200 when refusing to serve a mobile special page

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Nemo_bis created this task.Feb 19 2017, 11:26 AM

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Nemo_bis triaged this task as High priority.Feb 19 2017, 11:26 AM

Change 338615 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nemo bis):
Do not return HTTP 200 when refusing to serve a mobile special page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/338615

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 19 2017, 11:43 AM

Change 338618 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nemo bis):
Set canonical URL on Special:MobileLanguages to actual page URL

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/338618

Nemo_bis renamed this task from Special:MobileLanguages indexed by search engines (as pseudo-404) to Special:MobileLanguages is indexed by search engines (as pseudo-404).Feb 19 2017, 12:01 PM

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MZMcBride added a subscriber: MZMcBride.Feb 19 2017, 9:33 PM

bmansurov added a project: Readers-Web-Backlog.Feb 22 2017, 1:56 PM

bmansurov moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.Feb 22 2017, 2:32 PM

Jdlrobson added projects: Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Reading-Web-Sprint-93-🔍🔍🔍🔍🔍.Mar 6 2017, 9:08 PM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Needs Analysis to Ready for Signoff on the Reading-Web-Sprint-93-🔍🔍🔍🔍🔍 board.

Change 338615 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend] Do not return HTTP 200 when refusing to serve a mobile special page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/338615

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.29-release (WMF-deploy-2017-03-07_(1.29.0-wmf.15)).Mar 6 2017, 10:00 PM

Jdlrobson removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 7 2017, 6:00 PM

The pages are 404ing but still show up in search engine results (they will take time to propagate). This should be reopened in 2 weeks if we're not seeing any change.

Change 338618 abandoned by Nemo bis:
Set canonical URL on Special:MobileLanguages to actual page URL

Reason:
I still think the current canonical URL is wrong, but we can perhaps hope that the canonical URL will be ignored when it returns 404...

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/338618

MBinder_WMF moved this task from Needs Prioritization to 2016-17 Q3 on the Readers-Web-Backlog board.Apr 13 2017, 7:15 PM

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